signed first edition
1970 · New York
by BELLOW, Saul
New York: The Viking Press, Inc, 1970. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); blue-grey cloth, titled in black on spine and front cover; blue topstain; dustjacket; [6],7-316,[4]pp. Signed by the author on the upper margin of the title page. Some wear to spine ends and corners, upper corners gently tapped (though still sharp), with some light, scattered soil to rear cover; contents clean; Very Good+. Dustjacket is price-clipped, shelfworn, gently spine-sunned, with several nicks and closed tears, some shallow losses at crown (affecting one letter in the title), with a faint dampstain at base of spine; Very Good. Bellow's seventh novel, the story of a Holocaust survivor and intellectual living in New York during the 1960s. Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction in 1971. 83757.
(Inventory #: 83757)